Upgrading gc on an ubuntu desktop

tjoen tjoen at dds.nl
Mon May 1 02:35:44 EDT 2017


On Sun, 2017-04-30 at 21:43 -0700, John R. Sowden wrote:
> I have decided to give gc another chance.  I noticed that the copy I 
> have on my desktop is dated April, 2016.  I checked and found that
> this 
> is the "current version" per ubuntu, so to get a version that is a
> year 
> newer, I must go elsewhere.

U7.04 has 2.6.15
To get the current 2.6.16 you have to build it yourself

> Is this an "only install a new copy over the old copy", and if so
> where 
> do I find the instruction to do it properly, or something else.

A package manager replaces the old one.
If you build it yourself it is savest to install in /usr/local/


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